I been running my dcs engines quite a lot latley since using the new dcs wifi app. I got a samsung 7 inch tablet dedicated for the train room. This weekeng I have been playing with the more advanced features of dcs. The new wifi app makes this a lot easyer. I ran across some quirks today though and would like to share them for disscussion and also for your feedback. If you have any quirks running your mth engines with the dcs wifi feel free to post hear also. Mabe we can solve or point out dcs wifi issues together.
So to start this off. Today while running trains I was running a lash up of two ps2 3 volt ac600 bnsf engines and when I started up the lash up only one smoke unit came on. Had to turn on and off the smoke feature to get both smoke units going. Then I noticed that the sound of one engine was louder than the other. Seems when I use the volume bar to turn down the overall volume of the engine consist the rear engines volume does not respond to the setting only the front engine in the consist. Its volume goes up and down the rear engine stays full volume regardless of any of my changes. I have to go into the engine list and pick the rear engine and lower the volume for it that way. Then go back to the consist and adjust the volume for the consist to my liking.
Next I took a ps3 es44 UP and made a local frieght. Then I used the record feature and made a recording. Just a few small laps around my inner loop with some dialogue and some horn blows. Then I saved it and named it. I then played it back in loop mode while I started up and ran the bnsf consist on the outer loop. The es44 local frieght made the first recorded loop as recorded by me. Then during the second playback in loop mode I noticed the engine was moving rather slowly and it had no sound. The bnsf consist I was controlling was working as it should. So I stoped it and focused on the es44 engine. I restarted the loco and it ran just fine. I did not try the recorded session again though. I decided to shut down everything and quit running trains for the day. Not sure what happened in either of these two incidences,but they happened. Any suggestions as to why and what issues have you guys had while using the wifi app.
Also one question with the advanced recording feature. why cant you playback two recorded sessions at the same time? Is this a dcs memory issue. I could have run both of these engines in one recording session and played it back,but I made a recording session for each train. One for the es44 and one for the bnsf ac600 consist. Then tryed to play them both back at the same time. I found out that dcs only lets you playback on recorded session at a time it seems. Is this correct or am I missing something.
All advice is welcome here and if you guys have any operating dcs wifi problems lets discuss them her and talk about them. I for one love this app and want to get the most out of it. My goal is to someday have operating sessions on my layout like the h.o. guys do. I also have the legacy and serial 2 hooked up to my tiu. I have only tryed to run my legacy engines a couple of times. They seemed to run fine. All in all I cant wait to get more time in the trainroom to test out the dcs wifi fully with all my engines and uncover any abnormalities so if there are any that crop up maybe the mth rnd guys can look into them.
